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Colonization/Austin
Social Studies Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Anglo | A white person of European decent. |
Colony | A country or area under control of another country;A group of people living there. |
Constitution | A written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
Empresario | A person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there.. |
Land Grant | A contract that gives ownership of a plot of land. |
Massacre | A killing of many people. |
Miliitias | Groups of citizen solders. |
Pneumonia | A serious lung infection that makes it hard to breath. |
Republic | A political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them. |
Revolution | An act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another. |
Tejano | A Mexican-born Texan |
Texians | People living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836. |
Commerce | The buying and selling of goods and services. |
Conquistador | A Spanish conqueror of the Americas in the sixteenth century. |
Convert | To adopt new religious beliefs. |
Mestizos | People of mixed American Indian and European decent living in Mexico. |
Mission | A religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization. |
Missionaries | People who share share their religious faith with others,usually in other countries. |
Presidio | A Spanish fort staffed by solders. |
Squatters | People who settle on land without rights or tittles. |
Western Hemisphere | The part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America. |
Ranchers | People who raise livestock, such as cattle or horses. |